Episode 147
The Wisdom of Grief
Life is a series of ongoing losses; of people, places, and parts of self, and yet grief – the emotion we can experience as a result of loss – is rarely mentioned in coaching training.
In this conversation with integral coach Dina Bell-Laroche we explore grief and how to encounter it with our clients, the social perception of grief and grieving, the identity transformation catalyzed by loss, building safety and self-soothing, and the language of continued bonds.
In this podcast we talk about:
09:00 Meeting our grief
14:00 Social perceptions of grief
21:30 Transformation includes loss
24:30 Grief Literacy 101
30:30 Feeling disenfranchised in our grief
35:00 Processing through the body
41:00 Bearing witness
48:00 Encountering grief with a client
54:00 Building safety in the body
57:00 Learning self-soothing
1:05:00 The language of continued bonds
Resources Mentioned:
Thanatology
Prolonged Grief Disorder
The language of emotions, by Karla McLaren
Terry Tempest Williams
Krista Tippett
The wild edge of sorrow, by Francis Weller
The well of grief, by David Whyte